Overthinking? How to Stop the Spiral and Find God's Peace
Living God's Way with Kim Dolan Leto | Christian Habits, Identity in Christ, How to Walk with God Daily
Kim Dolan Leto
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🗓️ 17 March 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Do you ever replay conversations in your mind… wondering if you said the wrong thing or made the wrong decision?
Overthinking and anxious thoughts can quietly steal your peace — causing your mind to spiral into worry, analysis, and trying to control outcomes that actually belong to God.
Many Christian women struggle with this.
We want to make the right decisions.
We want to honor God.
We want to steward our lives well.
But when our minds start trying to carry things God never asked us to carry, our thoughts can quickly become exhausting.
In this episode of the Strong. Confident. His. Podcast, I'm sharing what Scripture teaches about overthinking, anxious thoughts, and how to renew your mind so you can return to God's peace.
You'll learn why mental spirals happen, how our thoughts begin replaying conversations and future worries, and how anchoring your mind in God's Word helps restore peace.
If your mind ever feels restless or overwhelmed, this episode will remind you that peace begins when we stop trying to do God's job and start trusting Him.
In this episode, you'll learn:
• Why overthinking often happens when we try to control outcomes that belong to God
• How replaying conversations and future worries creates spiraling
• Why renewing your mind through Scripture changes the direction of your thoughts
• How prayer, gratitude, and surrender bring your mind back to peace
• A simple question you can ask when your thoughts start spinning
This episode will help you stop trying to carry everything in your own strength and begin returning your thoughts to God's truth.
When truth leads your thoughts, God's peace follows.
Scripture Referenced in This Episode
Isaiah 26:3 — You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast because they trust in You
Matthew 6:34 — Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself
Romans 12:2 — Be transformed by the renewing of your mind
Philippians 4:6–7 — Present your requests to God and the peace of God will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus
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| 0:00.0 | Today, we are talking about overthinking. If you struggle with overthinking, this might be why, |
| 0:07.1 | your mind will never find peace while it's trying to do God's job. Who needed to hear that? I know I sure |
| 0:14.4 | did. Hey friend, I'm Kim Dolan Letto. I'm here to help you apply the Word of God to your life |
| 0:20.3 | in every area because we simply |
| 0:22.7 | cannot become our best without him. |
| 0:26.0 | I want to help you live strong, confident, his. |
| 0:29.0 | Okay, being vulnerable, I shared something recently that I put my heart into. |
| 0:35.1 | And almost immediately, my mind started overthinking it. I started thinking, |
| 0:39.9 | Lord, does what I do even matter? Did I say the wrong thing? Does anyone even care about this message? |
| 0:48.3 | My mind just kept going and going. And I caught myself thinking, why is it so hard sometimes to quiet my thoughts? |
| 0:56.7 | Anybody else? |
| 0:57.7 | Has this happened to you? |
| 0:59.6 | Maybe it's not posting something like I did online and feeling vulnerable and then overthinking, |
| 1:05.3 | how do I fix this? |
| 1:07.1 | Anybody else? |
| 1:07.9 | Has that happened to you? |
| 1:09.7 | Where you just, you have this message and you want to |
| 1:12.0 | share from your heart and you pray about it and you ask God, Lord, just help me serve and help me |
| 1:20.6 | be a blessing to someone and then crickets. Has that ever happened to you? Maybe not exactly in that way, but you poured your |
| 1:29.2 | heart into something or you had a conversation and then instantly you start thinking about what |
| 1:34.1 | you said, right? Maybe it isn't posting on something line. Maybe it's a conversation you had earlier |
| 1:39.4 | that day. Maybe it's a decision you're trying to make. Maybe it's the way you've been eating |
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